Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope detect a faint smudge that may be the first galaxy, or a nearby impostor, named ...

New Curtin University research has uncovered a striking link between the structure of our galaxy and the evolution of Earth's ...

The Gaia space observatory helped astronomers chart 4,000 light-years worth of our home galaxy.

When most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents slowly ...

If there’s one of these planets that could potentially sustain liquid water on the surface, it’s probably that one.” ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronaut Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

A rare kind of white dwarf can escape the galaxy at 1,200 miles per second. New 3D simulations explain the violent supernova chain behind it.

This really is a galaxy far, far away. — -- This really is a galaxy far, far away. A hidden dwarf dark galaxy was discovered four billion light years away from Earth by astrophysicists at ...